Routine contentment was: improving our treehouse that rested between giant twin chinaberry trees in the back yard, fussing, running through our list of dramas based on the works of Oliver Optic, Victor Appleton, and Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

There was a water-damaged Faulkner, and the nearly complete set of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Tarzan.